facebook Facebook cancels its all-spying, secret "research" program, Apple cancels Facebook's developer account Cory Doctorow

facebook Project Atlas: Facebook has been secretly paying Iphone users to install an all-surveilling "VPN" app Cory Doctorow

art The world's largest spool of thread is in Missouri Popkin

travel An army of troll dolls sit inside of the crevices of this wooden bridge in Portland Popkin

movies Atlas Obscura's list of 12 places to have a retro movie theater experience Popkin

History Time-lapse map of the colonization (and decolonization) of Africa Elías Villoro

lobsters The Lovecraftian horror of Lobster Mickey Mouse has been unearthed once more Thom Dunn

Mr. Yakkerboo and Blue is a wonderfully weird sculpture in Australia Popkin

Funny The Disgusting Food Museum of Sweden Popkin

Science The art shrines buried deep inside of the South Pole Ice Tunnels Popkin

earthquake Watch the Tuned Mass Damper inside a Taipei skyscraper react to this weekend's 6.9-magnitude earthquake Andrew Yi

History The Decolonial Atlas A.E. Gómez

unusual museums Take a trip to Wisconsin's Fiberglass Mold Graveyard Popkin

broken seasons Hey climate-change deniers! Mexico City had a white winter day – in the middle of June (video) Carla Sinclair

art This artist attached toy ponies to Portland horse rings Popkin

museums The Vagina Museum needs a new home Thom Dunn

oregon Help save Oregon's Enchanted Forest Andrea James

Space Explore every moon in our solar system with this interactive atlas Andrea James

micronations Sealand's caretakers Rob Beschizza

Japan Coming soon to Japan: a 60-ft walking Gundam robot Mark Frauenfelder